Assassins Creed Best Playing Order

by pitt-petersen • Created 2 years ago • Modified 11 months ago

heres an order of the modern day timeline that I worked on over Lockdown, it includes Watch_Dogs and is current up untill Legion/Valhalla:

2012
November
Altair Sequence
• Assassin’s Creed Penny Arcade Prequel (dubious canon)
• Assassin's Creed (short comic teaser from 2007)
• Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles (AC1 prequel, side game)
• Assassin's Creed (2007 game)
• Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines (AC1 sequel, side game)
Ezio Sequence
• Assassin's Creed: Lineage (miniseries)
• Assassin's Creed II
o Sequence 1 – 12
o Assassin's Creed II: Discovery (Ezio side game)
o Sequence 13 - 14
• Assassin’s Creed: Renaissance, (novelization of AC2)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (up to 19/09/12) - available on the Wiki
• Assassin's Creed: Ascendance (short film)
• Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (plus skippable novelization)
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (up to 10/10/12) - available on the Wiki
• Assassin's Creed: Revelations (plus skippable novelization)
o Lost Archive DLC
• Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
• Abstergo Files (from ACRe multiplayer) - available on the Wiki
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (up to 30/10/12) - available on the Wiki
• Assassin's Creed: Embers (short film)
French comics (non-canon)
• Assassin's Creed: The Ankh of Isis Trilogy (non-canon graphic novels)
• Assassin's Creed: The Hawk Trilogy (non-canon graphic novels)
Connor Sequence
• Assassin's Creed: The Fall and The Chain (Daniel Cross/Nikolai Orelov story)
• Assassin's Creed III
o Assassin’s Creed III: The tyranny of King Washington
• George Washington’s Notebook (pre-order exclusive, found online)
• Abstergo Story (from AC3 multiplayer) - available on the Wiki
• Assassin's Creed: Initiates (up to 21/12/12) - available on the Wiki
• Assassin's Creed: Forsaken (novel)
2013
• Assassin's Creed: Liberation
• AC: Data Recovery progress (all of it)
• AC: Surveillance (up to 29/10/2013)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Aveline (AC4 DLC)
• Assassin's Creed: Project Legacy - available on Access the Animus
• Assassin's Creed: Brahman (graphic novel)
• Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (plus the novel, expanded retelling)
• ACIV:BF: Blackbeard - The Lost Journal
• Assassin's Creed IV: Freedom Cry
• AC: Surveillance (rest of it)
• AC: Pirates
• Templars: Great Wall (FCBD)
• Templars: Black Cross (1-5) (Modern day story stated to be set in 2013)
2014
• Watch_Dogs
• Watch_Dogs: Dark Cloud
• Watch_Dogs: Bad Blood
Assassin's Creed: Rogue
• Assassin's Creed: French Revolution (short film)
• Assassin's Creed: Unity
o Dead Kings DLC
• ACU: Abstergo Entertainment Employee Handbook
• Assassin's Creed: Unity (tie-in novel, recommended)
• Assassin’s Creed: Identity available on wiki
2015
• Assassin's Creed: The Syndicate (short film)
• Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
o Last Maharaja DLC
o Jack the Ripper DLC
• Assassin's Creed: Underworld (novel, recommended)
• Assassin's Creed: Chronicles (China, Inda, Russia)
o China ties in with Embers
o India ties in with Brahman and Syndicate/Underworld
o Russia ties in with The Chain, the Fall and AC3
• Assassins: Trial by Fire (1-5)
2016
• Assassins: Setting Sun (6-8)
• Assassins: The Chair (FCBD) (happens between frames in issue 8
• Assassins: Setting Sun (9-10)
• Assassins: Homecoming (11-14)
October
• Watch_Dogs: Return to Rochinda
November
• Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants
• AC Last Descendants: Locus
• Assassin's Creed: Heresy
• AC Last Descendants: Tomb of the Khan
• AC Last Descendants: Fate of the Gods
• Assassin's Creed (2016 movie, plus the novel with some extra scenes)
• Templars: Cross of War (6-9)
2017
• Assassin's Creed: Reflections (1-4)
• Watch_Dogs 2
• AC Origins: Desert Oath
• Assassin's Creed: Origins
• Assassin's Creed: Origins (comicbook miniseries)
• Assassin's Creed: Conspiracies
• Assassin's Creed: Bloodstone
2018
Assassin’s Creed: Rebellion
July-August
• AC Uprising: Common Ground (1-4)
• AC Uprising: Inflection Point (5-8)
• AC Uprising: Finale (9-12)
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
• Assassin's Creed: Odyssey (novel: “canon” retelling of Odyssey)
(best place to read Assassin’s Creed: The essential guide)
2019
• Assassin's Creed: Gold (Audio drama)
• Assassin’s Creed: Blade of Shao Jun (manga)
2020
• Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood of Venice (Board game)
• Assassin’s Creed Viking age: History tour
• AC Valhalla: Blood Brothers
• AC Valhalla: Songs of Glory
• Assassin's Creed: Valhalla
• AC Valhalla: Geirmund's Saga (novel)
• AC Valhalla: Sword of the white horse (Novel)
• AC Vallhalla: Wrath of the Druids (DLC)
• AC Valhalla: Siege of Paris (DLC)
• AC Valhalla Forgotten Myths (tie in comic)
• AC Valhalla: Dawn of Ragnarok (DLC)
• AC Valhalla: Mastery Challenges (DLC)
• AC Valhalla: The Forgotten Saga (DLC)
• AC Valhalla: Tombs of the Fallen (DLC)
• AC Valhalla: The Final Chapter (DLC)
2021
• Watch_Dogs: Second Chance
2031
Watch_Dogs Legion: Tipping point (story trailer)
January
Watch_Dogs: Stars and Stripes (novel)
May-June
Watch_Dogs Legion (graphic novel)
Watch_Dogs Legion: Day Zero (novel)
November-early December (???)
Watch_Dogs Legion: Bloodline (DLC)
Watch_Dogs Legion
Watch_Dogs Legion: Resistance report (artbook w/story)
2032
Watch_Dogs Legion: Daybreak Legacy (novel)
Also, i feel I should cite my sources, the following guides helped alot
figuring this out, along with reading things on the wikis:
https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed ... rse_guide/
https://www.reddit.com/r/assassinscreed ... dia_order/
https://www.reddit.com/r/CodexTemporis/ ... mes_great/

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1. Assassin's Creed: Altaïr's Chronicles
2008TVideo Game
6.4 (209)
In the year 1190, The Holy Crusades have engulfed the Middle East. In an attempt to unite the lands and end The Third Crusade, Master Assassin Altair Ibn-La' Ahad must search for an artifact known as The Chalice, will he succeed?
DirectorStanislas Dewavrin
2. Assassin's Creed
2007MVideo Game
8.0 (21K)
A man enters a machine called the Animus that lets him relive the memories of his ancestor, a 12th century assassin named Altair.
StarsKristen BellPhilip ShahbazNolan North
3. Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines
2009MVideo Game
6.5 (409)
Direct sequel to Assassin's Creed (2007), depicting the journey of the Assassin Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad to the island of Cyprus.
StarsErik BraaCyrus FairdLea Gulino
4. Assassin's Creed: Lineage
20093 epsNot RatedTV Mini Series
6.9 (4.9K)
When the Duke of Milan is brutally murdered, the Assassin Giovanni Auditore is dispatched to investigate. The answers he uncovers implicate Italy's most powerful families reaching all the way back to the Vatican itself.
StarsRomano OrzariManuel TadrosJesse Rath
5. Assassin's Creed II
2009MVideo Game
9.0 (28K)
Desmond Miles is trained to become a modern-day Assassin through the resurrected memories of ancestor Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who uncovers a massive Templar conspiracy in Renaissance Italy leading to the new Pope.
StarsRoger Craig SmithKristen BellNolan North
6. Assassin's Creed II: Discovery
2009TVideo Game
5.7 (102)
The game's story takes place in 1490, 14 years after the beginning of its console counterpart, Assassin's Creed II. It follows that game's protagonist, Ezio Auditore da Firenze, as he travels to 15th century Spain to free his fellow assassins, who have been imprisoned under the guise of the Spanish Inquisition. In the process, he discovers that the Knights Templar are planning to sail west to discover the New World.[1] Ezio saves Christoffa or Christopher Columbus, and kills Tomás de Torquemada to end the Templar threat. Ezio also assassinates some other important targets such as: Gasper Martinez, Pedro Llorente, a Templar spy, and Juan de Marillo. Along the way Ezio saves many assassins who help him, including Luis de Santángel and Raphael Sanchez. Also Granada City is taken under siege by Templars and Ezio has to save the Moorish King Muhammad XII. Ezio also encounters Queen Isabella.
StarsAndrew ChaikinRoger Craig SmithTony Azzolino
7. Assassin's Creed: Ascendance
20108mNot RatedShort
6.1 (955)
The story is the bridges the gap of Assassin's Creed II and Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. After the destruction of Monteriggioni in the year 1500, Ezio met with Leonardo Da Vinci to gather information about the Pope's son, Cesare Borgia. Leonardo tells Ezio of Cesare's rise to power.
DirectorLaurent BernierStarsArthur HoldenRoger Craig SmithCarlos Ferro
8. Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood
2010MVideo Game
8.7 (19K)
Desmond Miles continues to travel the memories of Ezio Auditore, bringing him to turn-of-the-century Rome with Ezio rebuilding the assassin order to bring down the tyrannical Borgia rule.
DirectorPatrick PlourdeStarsRoger Craig SmithKristen BellNolan North
9. Assassin's Creed: Revelations
2011MVideo Game
8.2 (16K)
Ezio travels to Constantinople, at the peak of the Ottoman Empire to discover the truth behind his Ancestor, Altair, which will help him retrieve a powerful weapon hidden within Masyaf, the ancient assassins' fortress.
DirectorDamien KiekenStarsRoger Craig SmithCas AnvarNolan North
10. Assassin's Creed: Revelations - The Lost Archive
2012MVideo Game
5.3 (50)
It follows the life of Clay Kaczmarek, also known as Subject 16 of the Animus Project.
DirectorAlexandre AmancioStarsGraham CuthbertsonJohn de LanciePhil Proctor
11. Assassin's Creed: Embers
201121mShort
7.5 (2.6K)
Now living in a cozy Tuscan Villa with his wife and their two children, Ezio spends his time enjoying the company of family, old friends, and cultivating his vineyards. The life of this former Assassin Mentor will not stay quiet for long. One day, a mysterious Assassin shows up at Ezio's door quite unexpectedly, begging for Ezio's aid. Will this old Assassin's fire die out before he can save the ones he loves, or will it burn brightly one last time?
DirectorLaurent BernierStarsPeter ArpesellaAngela GaluppoRoger Craig Smith
12. Assassins Creed Black Flag Short Film
20148mNot RatedShort
6.6 (48)
A short fan film based on Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag.
DirectorJohn LydeStarsJames GaisfordPaul HuntWilliam Rubio
13. Assassin's Creed Chronicles: China
2015Video Game
6.3 (388)
The first Assassin's Creed Chronicles takes place in China, 1526, as the Ming dynasty starts to crumble. You embody Shao Jun, the last remaining Assassin of the Chinese Brotherhood, returning to her homeland with a vendetta.
14. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag
2013MVideo Game
8.7 (22K)
A video game where you play as sailor, privateer and assassin Edward Kenway exploring on and around the islands in the Caribbean Sea during the early 17th century.
DirectorsAshraf IsmailShadi MallakStarsMark BonnarJB BlancStephen Campbell Moore
15. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Freedom Cry
2013MVideo Game
7.0 (1.3K)
A privateer who escaped slavery as a boy must again face the harsh realities of the Afro-Caribbean slave trade after a hurricane leaves him stranded in Colonial Haiti, on the eve of the Maroon rebellion.
DirectorAmanda WyattStarsTristan D. LallaMariah IngerChristian Paul
16. Assassin's Creed: Pirates
2013Video Game
6.1 (66)
Captain Alonzo Batilla commands a ship and crew, while crossing paths with the Assassins and Templars. Gameplay focuses on real-time battles between ships, and features both wind and weather that will affect how players proceed. Designed for high end smartphones and tablets.
StarsEmily FrancisTristan D. Lalla
17. Assassin's Creed III
2012MVideo Game
7.9 (20K)
The American Colonies, 1775. It's a time of civil unrest and political upheaval in the Americas. As a Native American fights to protect his land and his people, he will ignite the flames of a young nation's revolution.
DirectorsFrançois DaubetShea WagemanStarsNoah WattsNeil NapierRobin Atkin Downes
18. Assassin's Creed III: The Tyranny of King Washington
2013MVideo Game
6.8 (556)
A three-part DLC series for Assassin's Creed III (2012), exploring an alternate reality in which George Washington goes mad with unlimited power, foregoing Presidency to rule as tyrannical King.
DirectorMarc-Alexis CôtéStarsNoah WattsRobin Atkin DownesDanny Blanco Hall
19. Assassin's Creed III: Liberation
2012MVideo Game
6.4 (1.8K)
In 18th century Louisiana, a female assassin named Aveline has to infiltrate the Templars' order and uncover and destroy their schemes.
StarsCas AnvarAndreas ApergisShawn Baichoo
20. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag - Aveline
2013MVideo Game
6.4 (31)
In 1784, Aveline traveled to Rhode Island on the request of Connor, with the intention of locating Patience Gibbs, an escaped slave, and recruiting her to the Assassin Order.
DirectorsJean GuesdonAshraf IsmailStarsAmber GoldfarbHelen KoyaJames Loye
21. Watch Dogs
2014MVideo Game
7.4 (11K)
After losing his niece in an assassination attempt, Aiden Pierce, a street-smart vigilante, uses hacking apps on his phone to take over a new operating system in Chicago to hunt the criminals that killed his niece.
DirectorsJonathan MorinKun ChangStarsNoam JenkinsR. Charles WilkersonHolly Uloth
22. Assassin's Creed: Rogue
2014MVideo Game
7.6 (5.8K)
Bridging the gap between Assassin's Creed IV and III, as tragedy and failure force Shay Cormac to question his own Creed. The Assassin turns Templar and embarks on a quest of vengeance and personal revelation, during the Seven Years' War.
DirectorMartin CapelStarsSteven PiovesanAndreas ApergisLucinda Davis
23. Assassin's Creed Unity E3 Trailer
2014Short
8.6 (118)
DirectorIstván Zorkóczy
24. Assassin's Creed: Unity
2014MVideo Game
7.1 (9.4K)
Paris, 1789. You play as Arno Victor-Dorian, an assassin during the French Revolution. As the nation tears itself apart, Arno will expose the true powers behind the Revolution.
DirectorsJesse Malcolm SweetAlexandre AmancioSylvain BernardStarsDan JeannotteCatherine BérubéJulian Casey
25. Assassin's Creed: Unity - Dead Kings
2015MVideo Game
6.7 (656)
DLC following Arno Victor-Dorian as he explores the city of Saint-Denis, an ancient necropolis with an network of catacombs and deep caves that hide the secrets of the French kings.
DirectorsFlorent SacreFrançois DaubetStarsDan JeannotteEamon StocksLisa Ryder